Optical analysis of nanoparticles via enhanced backscattering facilitated by 3-D photonic nanojets

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 526-533

  Li, Xu ^a   Chen, Zhigang ^a   Taflove, Allen ^a   Backman, Vadim ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC MICROSPHERES; MEDICAL OPTICS; OPTICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTONIC NANOJETS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 13544261676     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000526     Document Type: Article

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